Moped crime

[rendelharris]

Before anyone says it, I'm absolutely not saying everything in the garden's lovely, but I was interested to use this calculator on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44045128 and see that for South Camberwell, there have been thirty-four moped crimes in the last five years, and only twelve of them were robberies by people on mopeds (the rest were thefts of mopeds, which I know is serious). Just thought it lent an interesting perspective, when a foreigner reading the Evening Standard (or indeed this forum, on occasion) might get the impression that it was a rarity to walk anywhere round here and not be the victim of a moped robbery.

Again, not saying it's insignificant or that it isn't terrible for victims, just thought others might like to try their postcodes and see whether the actual level of crime matches up to their perception of it - I know it didn't for me!

[JohnL]

Some Central/North areas have 500+.

I notice (North) Peckham has 19 - one of the lowest.